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Post by avordvet on Apr 15, 2011 4:18:16 GMT -5
Jury awards woman $82,000 after she claimed Portland police shoved her, twisted her arm and arrested her because she asked for a business cardAimee Green, The Oregonian, Posted: 04/14/2011 9:15 PM "The biggest thing to me is I still believe the good guys win and justice prevails," she said. "And yes, there is accountability for the police."A Multnomah County jury awarded a 33-year-old woman $82,000 Thursday, saying they wanted to send Portland police a message: Hand over a business card the next time a citizen asks for one. Several jurors who spoke to The Oregonian after the verdict in Multnomah County Circuit Court said police weren’t dealing with an urgent or dangerous situation on the evening of Feb. 13, 2009 — when Shei’Meka Newmann questioned what she thought was an unnecessarily rough arrest of a fellow MAX rider. It would have taken only a few seconds for an officer to hand Newmann a card, jurors said. “I think that police need to be reminded that it’s part of their job to de-escalate and diffuse situations,” said juror Chris Bolles. Instead, jurors say police overreacted to Newmann’s queries.... Read More: mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg/db_/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=B3E1E7066ED36CA55E04A8C2A466436F?contentguid=sm46X1UO&full=true#display
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Post by avordvet on Apr 15, 2011 4:26:59 GMT -5
Personally, the pain for the police wouldn't stop there... the Officer that laid a hand on me, along with any others that observed the unlawful action, would be facing a civil suit for battery, unlawful restraint, false arrest and anything else I could charge 'em with, to put him either in jail or in the unemployment line
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Post by hefferman1 on Apr 15, 2011 9:20:19 GMT -5
The government gunthugs need to know the law. Chief Bad Elk vs The United States ruled that a citizen has the right to resist an unlawful arrest even to the point of the death of the officer.
People need to stand up to these thugs in uniform and force them to back down. That is the only way to stop this overreach of power by the government and those they train to abuse power.
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Post by hefferman1 on Apr 15, 2011 9:21:53 GMT -5
The police do not like it when you point this out to them. The officer who does CCDW training around here got a little upset when I pointed this out in the CCDW class I was in.
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